Faculty Of Medicine, Naresuan University Shortlisted As Finalists At Coming Prestigious Asia Pacific HIMSS-Elsevier Digital Healthcare 2019 Awards
Source: Thailand Medical News Oct 02, 2019 4 years, 6 months, 2 weeks, 4 hours, 29 minutes ago
Researchers from the Faculty of Medicine, Naresuan University have been selected as the finalists for two categories at the Prestigious Asia Pacific HIMSS-Elsevier Digital Healthcare 2019 Awards which are held annually.
The awards are recognitions to organizations that have effectively used information and technology to successfully improve quality of
health and care and patient safety.T here are only two categories in these awards:
- The Outstanding ICT Achievement Award to recognize outstanding achievement in harnessing ICT to provide significant improvement to patient care and safety;
- The Outstanding ICT Innovations Award to recognize the most innovative, creative and “out-of-the-box” ICT solutions used to improve patient care and safety.
Out of numerous submissions from countries around Asia Pacific, three
Thai entries were shortlisted out of the total 8 finalists for the awards in the two categories.
Under the Outstanding ICT Achievement Award category, the Faculty of Medicine, Naresuan University was chosen for their submission titled “The Doctor Knows You”.
For the Outstanding ICT Innovations Award, Faculty of Medicine, Naresuan University & NU Graduate School,
Thailand was chosen for their submission on “The e-Consultation System: A Telemedicine System using the Hololens®, Augmented Reality, and Innovative Networking”.
Another
Thai entry to also to have been chosen under this category is the Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bumrungrad Hospital,
Thailand, with their submission on “Deep Learning for Automated Classification of Tuberculosis-Related Chest X-Ray (DAC4TB)”.
Dr Ian Chuang, Chief
Medical Officer, Elsevier and a member of the judging panel commented in an exclusive
interview with
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“It has been exciting to serve on the judging panel for the HIMSS-Elsevier Digital Healthcare Awards, and the submissions have demonstrated the amazing innovative work applicants are doing to truly transform healthcare. They certainly deserve to be recognized for their outstanding transformative work.” further commented John H. Daniels, Global Vice President at HIMSS Analytics.
The winners of the Asia Pacific edition will be announced on 8 October during the
HIMSS-Elsevier Digital Healthcare Award Dinner at HIMSS AsiaPac19 Conference held at Bangkok.
HIMSS is a non-profit global advisor and thought leader supporting the transformation of the
health ecosystem through information and technology and the organization is based in the Chicago, US with members including more than 80,000 individuals healthcare professionals, 475 provider organizations and 650
health services organizations.
Elsevier is the world’s leading a global information analytics business that helps scientists and clinicians to find new answers, reshape human knowledge, and tackle the most urgent human crises. It is the largest leading supplier of
medical and healthcare information and data resources supplier.
